› added 5 years ago

102

TIL politician Stacey Abrams writes romance novels under the pen name Selena Montogomery, and has sold 100,000 copies.

Read more harpercollins.com

via reddit.com

XEgnj TIL a helicopter taxi to Monaco can be cheaper than a normal road taxi.
6D8m TIL “Weird Al” Yankovic wrote an original song called “Dare to Be Stupid” in the style of DEVO. Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh: “I was in shock. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. He sort of re-sculpted that song into something else and… I hate him for it, basically.”
e0k76 TIL possums and opossums are different animals and that the spelling shouldn't be used interchangeably
XwQj TIL: From January 1 to Nov 29, 2014 the CDC confirmed 610 measles cases in the US. This is the highest number of cases since measles was considered eliminated in 2000. The infection rate in 2013 was less than 200.
JYOxB TIL: "Semantic satiation" is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds